"The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame."

-- J. P. Donleavy

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.”
“Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.435, Chicken House
“I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need the writer, that the writer has to prove it. All that stuff might add up to a kind of fun in the work. I like things that are about interesting subjects, which sounds self-evident.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's no accident that new ideas pop into our heads when we least expect it. In our enthusiasm to be productive, we forget to give our mind/body moments to be "receptive" - that is, open to daydreaming, open to letting our minds wander.”
“Global is a unifying bond for people. Once they get outside their own heads and their own communities and see themselves in a broader framework, it really changes their sense of what they can get done. It all adds up for us.”
“For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.”
“If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.”

Source : "Driving With Mario Andretti, Who at 76, Still Refuses to Slow Down". Interview with Sam Smith, www.roadandtrack.com. June 24, 2016.
“The problem is compounded by the fact that the connection between cause and effect seems so improbable. By turning on the lights, filling the kettle, taking the children to school, driving to the shops, we are condemning other people to death. We never chose to do this. We do not see ourselves as killers. We perform these acts without passion or intent.”

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